Improved car-coupling



QUICK & WALLIS.

- Ca'r Coupling. No. 54,955. Patented Mav 22. 1866.

Inventor N, PETERS. PHOTO-l ""KERAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

7 pin, F, pendent therefrom.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE QUICK AND JOHN N. WALLIS, OF FLEMING, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED CAR-COUPLING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5 1,955, dated May 22,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE QUICK and JOHN N. VVALLIs, of the town-ofFleming, in Cayuga county, New York, have invented a new and ImprovedMode of (Jouplin g Railroad- Oars and Uncouplingthe Same; and we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, makin g apart of this specification, and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the coupling anduncoupling railroad-cars, and very greatly lessen the danger in doingthe same, by making the cars self-coupling, and by this means renderingit wholly unnecessary to go between the ears for thatpurpose.

In order that others skilled in the art may know how to make and use ourinvention, we will proceed to describe its construction and mode ofoperation.

Figure 1. is a perspective view of the entire device. A is a portion ofa link, and when made complete has a slot, as shown at B,,iu

both ends, and for the same purpose.

0 is a shaft crossing the case D, at right angles thereto, and the fourtriangular pieces 1 2 3 4 are guides for holding the shaft 0- inposition when lifted, as hereinafter described. This shaft is shown atFig. 2 with a bolt or In Fig.1 the same bolt is shown partly in reddotted lines at F.

The shaft G in length exceeds the width of the body of the car by whatis required to secure the handles H and I, and is intended to bejointedthereto at each end inside the said handles.

The shaft G is boxed to the under side of the case D. On both sides ofthe case D are arms extending out from and making part of the saidshaft, one of which is shown at J.

The extreme ends of said arms J are jointed to the slotted right-anglepieces K, one of which is shown at K, the other being out of sight onthe opposite side of the case.

The shaft G is made round the distance required to pass through the caseD, so as to allow said shaft to be turned partly round.

This rounded portion of this shaft (shown partly in red dotted lines atL) has a lug, M, projecting from the side thereof.

Now, as the cars come together the link having the slotted end passesinto the bell-shaped end of the case D. As it moves in it comes incontact with the bolt F, pendent from the shaft 0, moving the lower endbefore it, and rolling the shaft (1 until the bolt F falls by its owngravity into the slot B, and the cars are by this means coupled firmlytogether.

The cars are uncoupled by turning the shaft G by the handles H and I, soas to lift the arms J. The front end of the slotted piece K, beingjointed to the end of the arm J, will be lifted upward and backward. Bythis movement the bolt F is lifted out of the slot B and the link'isreleased. As the link passes out the hook N, on the under sideof link,comes in contact with the lug M, and the shaft G is restored to itsformer position, and is ready to again receive the coupling-link asbefore.

Having above described the construction and mode of operating ourinvention, what we claim as new, and wish to secure by Let ters Patent,is

1. The swinging bolt F, when combine-d with the link A, slotted piece K,and shaft G, in the manner, for the purpose described.

2. The arrangement, as described, of shaft G, withits arms J and I, andslotted piece K, to release the coupling of the cars without passingbetween them, in the manner and for the purpose described.

3. The combination of the hook Nupon the link A with the lug M on shaftG, so that upon the withdrawal of the link the coupling will be restoredto its normal position, as herein described.

JOHN N. WALLIS. GEORGE QUICK.-

Witnesses:

AVERY BABBETT, HORACE T. 0001:.

